Neck or bracelet chain



(No Model.)

D. S. SPAULDING.

NECK 0E BRACELET CHAIN.

Patented Dec. 18.

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DOLIVER SIMON SPAULDING, `OE MANSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

NECK 0R BRACELET CHAIN.

SPECIFICATION'forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,278, dated December 18, 1883,

Application led August 1, 1888.

.T0 @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, DoLrvER S. SPAULDING, of Manseld, in the county of Bristol, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have inventedfa new and useful Improvement in Neck or Bracelet Chains; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 an View, and Fig. 3 a horizontal section, of a portion of a neck or bracelet chain involving my invention, it being composed of several ranges of units or rings and two edge ranges of cups, arranged as shown, and connected as hereinafter described.

In my improved chain each cup or each range of cups has one hole only made through its bottom at the center thereof, and the connection of each two opposite or fellow cups and the intervening ranges or units is by one or two pieces of wire bent and applied in manner as represented, the Wire lor wires going through the said Central holes of the oups and also through the intermediate ranges, and being bowed so asA to pass through such rings. Each edge cup, after being connected with its fellow, has a cover or filling inserted in it to close its mouth.

My present chain differs from that shown in the United States Patent N o. 254,512, dated March 7, 1882, and granted to me, for in the chain represented in such patent, each of the cups has two holes through its bottom,where as in my present chain there is but one hole in the bottom of each cup, and that is through the center thereof, and instead of the fastening wire or wires being led -straight through the fellow cups and intermediate units or rings, each of said wires is bowed or Curved in its passage through the said intermediate units or rings, all being as represented in the accompanying drawings, in which each cup A of each range of the cups is shown as having a hole, a, through its bottom at the center (No model.)

thereof. The intermediate units or rings are shown at B B, Src., as disposed in separate ranges and lapping on one another in the usual manner. In one case the bowed-wire connection D is shown as composed of two separate pieces of wire arched or bowed where` going through the ranges, and inserted through the holes ofthe bottoms of the fellow cups, and thence bent outwardly within such cups and against the bottoms thereof, as represented.

Each cup preferably has its cup concavooonveX, as shown, or it may be flat. Another connection is exhibited at D as made of a single piece of wire bent at its middle so as to form a head, as shown at a, to go within a cup; thence, after having been passed through the hole of one cup, the two branches of the wire are bowed or bent so as to pass through the rings and the hole in the fellow cup in manner as represented, the said two branches where within the said fellow cup being bent outwardly against its bottom in manner as shown. With the connection-wires so applied each cup of the chain is rendered capable of revolving on the connection, and the chain can tom, Vand each two opposite fellow edge cups 8o connected by a wire or wires going through their holes and bowed or curved in passing through the intermediate rings, and bent outwardly within the cups, all essentially as se forth. A

DOLIVER SIMON SPAULDING.

Vitnesses:

R. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT. 

